Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC. All thoughts are my own.

I was brought in by the tagline as "whimsical and unforgetable", but it wasn't particularly either of those adjectives, nor was the story particularly inspiring to me. While Howl's Moving Castle was a comp title, A Harvest of Hearts was too similar for me to feel like it was a separate story. This was supposed to be an adult fantasy, but it felt very juvenile, and Young Adult at best.

Somehow, Cornelius the talking cat was the best character throughout the novel. I did think the magic system was interesting (stealing hearts to do magic) but it wasn't expanded upon and I wish I saw more done with it.

I disliked both Sylvester and Foss as main characters. Sylvester was a flat MMC. He was described as lazy and beautiful and not much beyond that. There wasn't much of a dive into his background, arguably the most interesting thing about him, nor was there any insight into his motives, or even why he fell in love with Foss. 

Foss is entirely defined by her perseverance, cooking skills, and most loudly, her ugliness. I wasn't moved by her character arc, nor the romance between her and Sylvester. We're told that she loves him because of the bond created by Sylvester snagging her heart, but there's no insight into why or how Sylvester fell for Foss. And really, how much of the romance between the two can be attributed to their own feelings and how much is the (non-consenual) bond?

Style wise, each character does have their own unique voice but there were multiple places the story dragged along and I struggled to keep interest in reading. A lot of the story felt repetitive and the ending felt unearned, like there wasn't enough character growth to justify the happy ending it was too easy and unsatisfying.